Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...untethered space walks on Tuesday and Thursday. Spacemen have been venturing outside their spacecraft ever since Cosmonaut Alexis Leonov undertook the first EVA (for extravehicular activity, in NASA jargon) in 1965. But they have always been securely hooked to a lifeline. This time they will rely entirely on a Buck Rogers-type contraption called, with a touch of sexism, a manned maneuvering unit...
...buck them [public and private developers]. We have to work with them to get what we can," explains the 25-year resident of East Cambridge...
...heir urged Getty Oil Chairman Sidney Petersen, 53, and the company's directors to reconsider corporate strategy, he ran into resentment and resistance. "I was surprised at the antics of management," says Los Angeles Oil Analyst Craig Schwerdt. "It didn't seem possible for them to buck the wishes of Gordon Getty and get away with...
...show's opening lineup featured three regulars: the deadpan, usually deadeye Buck Henry, the chameleon-like Dave Thomas, late of SCTV. and Valri Bromfield, a Canadian comedian whom Michaels originally wanted for SNL. There was a handful of mostly traditional sketches, long on premise and short on development. Guest Star Steve Martin (who can be funny just standing still) opened the show with some mincing mimickry of Michael Jackson's distinctive footwork. In one skit Jeff Goldblum (The Big Chill) played an earnest, geeky math teacher who yearned to belt out Tom Lehrer-like songs for the faculty...
...translation of reality into the collective American myth, the cowboy became a national ideal, the symbol of civilized individualism riding west. The state of the cowboy myth became a gauge of American values, of the way that the nation envisioned good guys and bad guys: the wholesomely, vapidly manly Buck Jones-Tom Mix model gave way to a post-World War II demigod. John Wayne, who had none of the old sweet prissiness and was not afraid of the uses of power. Wayne gave way during the Viet Nam era to Clint Eastwood, the high plains drifter with an almost...